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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...convinced, just think of Dan Quayle, who, evidently trying to create a palindrome, offered, "The job is just awkward, an awkward job." But perhaps the vice presidency has been best characterized by former V.P. John Garner who famously uttered, "The vice presidency is not worth a pitcher of warm spit...

Author: By Joshua I. Weiner, | Title: Wanted: Alive (We Hope) | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...time to quit while we're ahead," leaving plenty of room for speculation about what really doomed the hit factory. Martin's music has reportedly made him a multimillionaire (he refuses to discuss his wealth). Maybe a clash of egos caused the rift. Or maybe Martin had chewed and spit out all the bubble-gum pop he had in him. Fiction, he says, but typically he didn't quash the talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top of the Pops | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Mistress Sandy, 25, has been a successful dominatrix for two years. She has a spate of regular customers - 70% of them Chinese, like her - and a reputation as a fierce mistress who will kick and spit you into submission. Raised in Hong Kong, her family doesn't know her occupation. Nor do her three roommates or her boyfriend. "He's traditional Chinese. He wouldn't understand," she says. After high school, she got a job as a secretary at a Hong Kong bank but didn't like it. "I wasn't good at that. I'm good at this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Other tests are both hard to use and unnecessary. Take, for example, those devices that measure body fat. Just hold the device like a steering wheel, one brand promises, and in a matter of seconds it will send an electrical pulse through your body and spit out your body-fat percentage. But the instruction booklet lists eight conditions--including swelling, pregnancy and even a cold or the flu--that will produce inaccurate results. Anyway, who besides competitive body builders really needs to keep such close tabs on body fat? The rest of us should be more concerned about the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do It Yourself? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Yankee), who might not be in harmony with going around saying "n-----." So the speaker might backpedal, with an unction of benevolence: "Uh, 'cose, you know, I don't mean nuthin' by that. (Squinting now into the middle distance, with a philosophical air; if outdoors, he might even spit speculatively.) "The way I figure, they'se white n------ as well as black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Word Is Deed | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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